Mohan Anu, Gopalakrishnan Asha, Chandran Rajiv, Joseph Susan, Mathew Asha Joselet, S Nair Anjaly, Sudhakaran Rathi
Anatomy, Government Medical College, Thrissur, IND.
Anatomy, Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, IND.
Cureus. 2023 Dec 27;15(12):e51146. doi: 10.7759/cureus.51146. eCollection 2023 Dec.
Background The diameter of coronary arteries serves as a potential predictor of coronary artery diseases (CADs) that can lead to sudden death. Factors such as gender, age, and coronary artery dominance play a role in influencing the size of normal coronary arteries. The outcome of coronary interventions, to a certain extent, depends on luminal size. Given the considerable variability in luminal size within the normal population, establishing the baseline size of normal coronary arteries in a specific population can aid in estimating the severity of coronary disease and predicting the outcome of interventional procedures. The current study focuses on estimating the luminal diameter of normal coronary arteries within the context of age, gender, and cardiac dominance in the South Indian population. Methods A retrospective study was conducted utilizing coronary angiograms with normal findings from 453 patients, comprising 257 males and 196 females, with a mean age of 54.66±10.66 years. These patients attended the outpatient service of the Cardiology Department at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, a quaternary care center, between 2015 and 2017. The luminal diameter of coronary arteries is represented as mean±SD in millimeters. Results In the present study, we noted that the largest coronary artery was the left main coronary artery (LMCA, 3.59±0.58 mm), followed by the left anterior descending artery (LAD, 3.50±0.52 mm), the left circumflex artery (LCX, 3.31±0.57 mm), and the right coronary artery (RCA, 3.18±0.57 mm). We further broke down the statistics to evolve a gender pattern. In the raw comparison of data, the luminal size of coronary arteries in males was greater than in females, and statistical significance was noted in all except LAD. In males, the largest coronary artery was LMCA (3.70±0.60 mm), followed by LAD (3.54±0.48 mm), LCX (3.36±0.58 mm), and RCA (3.25±0.62 mm). In females, no significant size difference was observed between LMCA (3.45±0.53 mm) and LAD (3.46±0.55 mm). Females exhibited an increase in the size of LMCA with advancing age. Regardless of right or left cardiac dominance, LMCA was consistently larger than RCA in both genders. However, in cases of co-dominance, only males demonstrated significantly larger LMCA. Conclusion Precise knowledge of the size of normal coronary arteries and their influence by gender, age, and dominance can be crucial for the comprehensive evaluation of CADs and the success of interventional procedures.
背景 冠状动脉直径可作为冠状动脉疾病(CAD)的潜在预测指标,CAD可导致猝死。性别、年龄和冠状动脉优势等因素在影响正常冠状动脉大小方面发挥作用。冠状动脉介入治疗的结果在一定程度上取决于管腔大小。鉴于正常人群管腔大小存在相当大的变异性,确定特定人群中正常冠状动脉的基线大小有助于评估冠状动脉疾病的严重程度并预测介入手术的结果。本研究聚焦于在南印度人群中,结合年龄、性别和心脏优势来估计正常冠状动脉的管腔直径。
方法 进行了一项回顾性研究,利用453例冠状动脉造影结果正常的患者数据,其中包括257例男性和196例女性,平均年龄为54.66±10.66岁。这些患者于2015年至2017年期间在科钦阿育吠陀医学科学研究所心脏病科门诊就诊,该科室为四级医疗中心。冠状动脉的管腔直径以毫米为单位表示为平均值±标准差。
结果 在本研究中,我们注意到最大的冠状动脉是左主干冠状动脉(LMCA,3.59±0.58毫米),其次是左前降支动脉(LAD,3.50±0.52毫米)、左旋支动脉(LCX,3.31±0.57毫米)和右冠状动脉(RCA,3.18±0.57毫米)。我们进一步细分统计数据以得出性别模式。在原始数据比较中,男性冠状动脉的管腔大小大于女性,除LAD外,其他均具有统计学意义。在男性中,最大的冠状动脉是LMCA(3.70±0.60毫米),其次是LAD(3.54±0.48毫米)、LCX(3.36±0.58毫米)和RCA(3.25±0.62毫米)。在女性中,LMCA(3.45±0.53毫米)和LAD(3.46±0.55毫米)之间未观察到显著的大小差异。女性的LMCA大小随年龄增长而增加。无论心脏是右优势还是左优势,在两性中LMCA始终大于RCA。然而,在共优势的情况下,只有男性的LMCA显著更大。
结论 准确了解正常冠状动脉的大小及其受性别、年龄和优势的影响,对于全面评估CAD和介入手术的成功至关重要。